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The First Amendment: Reliquary for the Ashes of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses The Eighth Amendment: Forlorn Hope: The Prison Reform Movement by Larry E. Sullivan The Ninth Amendment: The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy The Second Amendment: Gathering Storm by Morris Dees with James Corcoran The Fifth Amendment: Branches by Mitch Cullin, illustrated by Ryuzu Kikushima The Seventh Amendment: The Litigation Explosion by Walter K. Olson The Tenth Amendment: Bush v. Gore by The United States Supreme Court The Sixth Amendment: The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin The Fourth Amendment: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Above: The Bill of Rights exhibition at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery
141 Prince Street, New York City
April 27 - June 1, 2002

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The Bill of Rights edition is in the permanent collections of
Yale University
The Art Institute of Chicago

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
limited edition set


Motto from the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania,
an anonymous book published in 1759, attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Richard Jackson.
The quote is from a letter sent to the Governor by the Assembly, November 11, 1755.
A 40" wide print is included with the edition, inkjet on paper.

Look at detailed photos and specifications of individual works by clicking the images below.

Since 1993 Richard Minsky has been working on a series about The Bill of Rights. The current offering is a set of ten bookworks. 

The works are not available individually.

You can also view the earlier unique objects, representing the first, second, and eighth amendments. They are not the works which are included in this edition. Scroll down to see the current works.

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The First Amendment

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The First Amendment: click here for another viewReliquary for the Ashes of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.

Upon publication the author lost the freedoms of Press, Religion, Speech and Assembly in some countries. The Fatwah issued on Rushdie and the book-burnings made headlines around the world.  

The Second Amendment

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Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat

by Morris Dees with James Corcoran

Morris Dees is the Chief Trial Counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center. This book documents the hate group roots of the militia movement. 

The Third Amendment

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Seven Days in May
by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
with a dvd of the film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
directed by John Frankenheimer, screenplay by Rod Serling

The Third Amendment sets a clear boundary on military authority. In this classic story the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is seeking to quarter himself in The White House.

The Fourth Amendment

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Neuromancer
by William Gibson

The novel that introduced us to Cyberspace. Every day there are more issues about government searches of our emails, web habits, and hard drives.

The Fifth Amendment

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BRANCHES

by Mitch Cullin
illustrated by Ryuzo Kikushima

Written in the first person as the story of a Sheriff in Texas who is judge, jury and executioner. Each copy of the book has 9mm bullet holes shot through the cover, a Sheriff badge, and the title is affixed as a name badge. This edition of Branches includes color prints of the 16 illustrations, tipped in over the black and white reproductions in the book.

The Sixth Amendment

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The Run of His Life : The People v. O.J. Simpson
 
by Jeffrey Toobin.

This was the most public trial in history, with many questions about the jury, witnesses and defense counsel. It occupied the television networks day and night. Before the trial began, the author wrote in The New Yorker that the defense would play the "race card" and claim Mark Fuhrman was a racist who was framing Simpson because he was black. 

The Seventh Amendment

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The Litigation Explosion:
What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit

by Walter K. Olson

In 1789 twenty dollars went a long way. Since the 1970's "civil" lawsuits have flooded the judicial system. Now a multibillion dollar business, the litigation industry proceeds on flimsy pretexts, preceding a search for evidence. 

The Eighth Amendment

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Forlorn Hope: The Prison Reform Movement
by  Larry E. Sullivan

During the 1990's the drive toward prison reform reversed. Prison libraries were closed, chain gangs and striped uniforms came back, and prison populations increased. 

The Ninth Amendment

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The Right to Privacy

by Ellen Alderman and
Caroline Kennedy.

We all assume we have a right to privacy, but every day that right seems to diminish. From our personal data on the internet to telemarketing at dinnertime, we are barraged. And that's just the tip of it. This book identifies many serious legal issues surrounding privacy considerations. 

The Tenth Amendment

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USSC No. 00-949
by The Supreme Court of The United States of America

This is the decision of the Supreme Court in the landmark case that determined the outcome of the 2000 election, Bush vs. Gore. This ruling, overturning a decision of the Florida Supreme Court, is arguably the most significant Federal intervention in states' rights in modern history. 

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The Bill of Rights edition is in the permanent collections of
Yale University
The Art Institute of Chicago

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